Volume 35, Number 12 · July 21, 1988
The Reagan Economic Legacy
By Emma Rothschild
Budget of the United States Government: Fiscal Year 1989
US Government Printing Office, 616 pp., $18.00
Economic Report of the President, Transmitted to the Congress, February 1988, Together with The Annual Report of the Council of Economic Advisers
US Government Printing Office, 374 pp., $10.00
The twelve million new jobs that were created during the Reagan years fall into four main categories. The first group consists of services to wealth, or to the rich. Two million new jobs between 1981 and 1987 were created in finance, insurance, real estate, and legal services. [1] 'Sales representatives, securities and financial services,' 'investigators and adjusters, except insurance,' 'managers, properties and real estate.' These are among American occupations that have grown most rapidly in the 1980s.[2]
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